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AFL-CIO asks state insurance officials to investigate health plan lobbying
No one would argue that health plans have deployed their full lobbying powers to influence the outcome of the health reform process--after all, every major interest in the health insurance industry... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Ex-CIGNA exec rips health plans
Many providers and consumers suggest that health plans aren't just bureaucratic, but also scheming to trip them up. And at least one former CIGNA executive agrees. With relentless pressure always on... Read more...
Health Net will stop using Ingenix database
Following the lead of other insurers, including Cigna, UnitedHealth and Aetna, Health Net has agreed to stop using an Ingenix database commonly used by health plans to set out-of-network... Read more...
Study ranks Aetna, Cigna and Humana as fastest payers
Which health plans pay the fastest? Last year, according to vendor Athenahealth, Aetna, Cigna and Humana made the cut, ranking first out of 172 carriers studied. To compile its results, Athenahealth... Read more...
Advocates outraged by CMS decision not to pay for virtual colonoscopies
Last week, CMS announced that it would no longer reimburse for virtual colonoscopies, otherwise known as CT colonographies. While several large commercial health plans cover the procedure, including... Read more...
CIGNA's H. Edward Hanway - CEO Compensation
H. Edward Hanway - CIGNA Total Compensation: $12,236,740 Details: Hanway took a significant pay cut from 2007 to 2008, due mainly to a drop off of more than $11 million in his non-equity incentive... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: CIGNA offers real-time cost estimator, pre-care
CIGNA has rolled out a web-based "Cost of Care Estimator" that offers patients and doctors a real-time view of what they really owe for medical treatments, including a detailed description of costs,... Read more...
Drugmakers offer performance-based pricing
Now here's an idea that is likely to win a lot of fans. Under pressure from insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies have begun to adjust what they charge for medications based on how well the... Read more...
WellPoint added to AMA's class-action lawsuit
The American Medical Association recently argued in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles that Indianapolis-based WellPoint, held its out-of-network reimbursements artificially low for several years.... Read more...
Trend: More medical practices require same-day deductible payment
In the past, most medical practices were content to collect co-pays from patients and go after health plans for the rest of what they were owed. They did this, in part, because they just weren't sure... Read more...
